And the captain...
If Robshaw (pictured) is in the team then he will lead it. If not, then it is a difficult choice. Heaslip is still learning and I'm not convinced with him as a captain. My criteria for picking the Lions captain would be first to choose the best XV and then pick the captain from that list. The guys who are captaining their countries at the moment are not guaranteed a place in the best Lions XV. So from this team who would be captain? It would have to be Dan Cole, not least because he would be the first person in the team. Is he captaincy material? He is not shy of speaking his mind when he wants to. He can be a quiet and unassuming guy off the pitch but then Martin Johnson was very similar in that sense and he was no bad leader.